🤬 OUT TODAY! 🤬 Angertainment: How Social Media Outrage Ruined Everything Angertainment is about a scary new power and what we can do about it. Available in all good bookstores/audio/ebookstores: simonandschuster.com.au/books/Angert... #angertainment #auspol #socialmedia #disinformation

Not a moment too soon www.theguardian.com/environment/...

For people with disabilities, extreme heat is more than just an inconvenience - it is a critical health and accessibility crisis. Come to a free, online Heat and Disability Symposium on tomorrow from 1pm AEST events.humanitix.com/heat-and-dis...

Victoria is getting a stark warning about the health and economic costs of climate change. More than $57 billion worth of infrastructure, including roads, rail, hospitals and energy assets, is at risk of damage or destruction from extreme heat, bushfires and floods by 2030.

The New York Times editorial board: “Americans should be cleareyed about what the president is doing. He is taking their money and showering it on criminals.”

I cut my commute down to a 12-minute bike ride. I am so in love.

This headline is a disgusting lie Special Disability Trusts are not affected *AT ALL* The article even makes it clear the concerns of the bloke (a solicitor with expertise in wills and estates) in this story are not about his disabled son but his other children being able to minimize their tax!

The PHON cookers just found out John Williamson is not with them, and they are losing their shit. :chefskiss: #auspol

Every Porsche is a policy failure.

So here’s the question for everyone – how do we fix this? How do we restore a truly global commons where ideas can be freely shared and algorithms are subject to neither ideological nor financial biases?

This could be interesting… www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/b...

I guess this is why @katharinehayhoe.com calls it "global weirding." A strong El Niño may be coming, but climate change is making it harder to predict what that actually means: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/c...

Look at this excellent galaxy just being excellent. Imaged by my friend Ángel López-Sánchez -- who is also part of our team at Macquarie University!

Looking at the colour pink has been shown to induce relaxation & looking at something we find beautiful triggers dopamine release in our brains, so this is for you & your brain in case you’re anxious or sad today. The pinks of May pt1, incl Rose Pink Perpetué inspired by Victorian botanical plates🌿:

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

Anti-vax US leadership blocking science they don’t like (again) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

Perfect clothing choice for English teachers on May the 4th. #teaching #education #StarWarsDay #MayTheForceBeWithYou #MayTheFourthBeWithYou #MetaphorsBeWithYou

Biobanks - ‘living libraries’ ❤️ 🪸🐠 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Anyone want to guess whats happening with Iran war and EV sales? "75% of the world lives in fossil fuel importing countries. Every $10 oil price rise adds $160bn/year to the global import bill. The single biggest fix: EVs replacing imported oil in transport could save importers $600bn/year."

Got up early in hopes of catching this photo before work this morning. There's only a few days each year where it's cool enough in the morning to make this shot possible. Thankfully, today was one of those days! #wildlife #birds

it's pretty rad

Species are vanishing at rates of tens to hundreds of times faster than before modern humans arrived on the scene, a crisis some scientists call the sixth mass extinction. Jonathan Ledgard is working as a financier opening bank accounts in the name of nonhumans. https://wapo.st/49g9GzK

It’s depressing what money can buy www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

NT diphtheria outbreak worsens as cases of the potentially deadly disease more than double. The department and Aboriginal health organisations are urging all Territorians to stay up to date with vaccinations. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

📢 A new report argues that Australia lacks a national strategy to regulate the spread of artificial intelligence in the workplace. It has been published as an A-I forum is held in Adelaide to examine that issue. The report from the John Curtin Research Centre argues that AI’s impact on Australian…

“… we need to state the deeper truth: a dress should cost more than $40.” YES! www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026...

How the Trump Administration Ended Independent Science at the E.P.A. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/c...

TONIGHT IN MELBOURNE: alongside #WomenDeliver I’ll be hosting a conversation with youth climate organisers about how we maintain the passion and determination. Thank to @cityofmelbourne.bsky.social ❤️💪🌱 whatson.melbourne.vic.gov.au/things-to-do...

Its an economic, environmental and humanitarian disaster. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...

Wild animation of the little shippies trying to race through the Strait of Hormuz during the few days it was "open" www.csis.org/analysis/str...

Lily ❤️ 20/4/1999-20/4/1999 You heal, but you don’t forget. 27 years ago, hospital staff, family and friends saw me through a medical emergency and the hardest day of my life. Thank you. Today, in some US states, I would be left in the hospital carpark to bleed until staff were sure I was dying. 😥

This is beautiful and interesting. (Vale Ruth ❤️) www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Best defence. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social

Cherry blossoms charting climate change. A beautiful sad story www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Angus Taylor, My mother is rapidly approaching the end of her life, in aged care. This awful time is being made easier by the tender, thoughtful care by people from Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Australia. How dare you talk about ‘Australian Values’ & reboot One Nation/Trump bs about migrants.

Good piece from @rebeccahuntley.bsky.social www.smh.com.au/environment/...

😥 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/c...

housing is more expensive now, but also a lot safer. this kind of home was considered cream of the crop in the 1980s

god grant me the serenity to accept the bellies i cannot safely pat, the courage to pat the bellies i can, and the wisdom to know the difference

Even Pauline Hanson has solar panels on her roof. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

ahhahahah Nice one, @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The loss of urban greenery is happening in both private and public spaces www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

More than 198,000 tonnes of #batteries reached recycling centres in 2024, mostly lead acid batteries used in petrol and #diesel cars. But end-of-life lithium-ion batteries, like those used in #EVs, are forecast to double by 2030.

Hop around and find out.

In more than half of #US states, Republican and Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation that would boost adoption of DIY #solar systems.

reneweconomy.com.au/balcony-sola... “…it will produce about 15% to 20% of the electricity her family uses and save her about $100 per year. Every time Phillips gazes at the device, she said, she’s amazed that ​“this is just a thing that I plugged in, and I’m generating my own power.””

"The U.S. now experiences a billion-dollar disaster about every two weeks, on average." 😩 As communities struggle to recover from increasingly devastating climate disasters, the Big Oil companies fueling them are making trillions—and paying nothing. We can't afford to let Big Oil off the hook.